Lesson Plans

STEM

Primary & Elementary

The Tallest Tower

Lead students in a design challenge to create the tallest freestanding structure out of straws and masking tape in order to teach them teamwork, collaboration, and engineering principles through a real-world lens.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Hide and Seek

Explore ecosystems with students, focusing on an organism’s use of camouflage and the role it plays in survival; then open up a discussion to help students connect real-life examples of camouflage in nature.

Middle & High

Design Challenge

Lead students in a design challenge to create the tallest freestanding structure out of straws and masking tape in order to teach them teamwork, collaboration, and engineering principles through a real-world lens.

Energy Audit

Dive into the topic of efficient and sustainable energy use with your students by leading them around the school to record data about electricity use to estimate the cost of using light bulbs in their classroom and throughout the school.